| Let My People Go! | |
| Director: | Mikael Buch |
| Producer: | Philippe Martin Geraldine Michelot |
| Starring: | Nicolas Maury Carmen Maura |
| Editing: | Simon Jacquet |
| Studio: | Les Films Pelleas |
| Distributor: | Les Films du Losange and Zeitgeist Films |
| Runtime: | 86 minutes |
| Country: | FinlandFrance |
| Language: | French |
| Cinematography: | Celine Bozon |
Let My People Go! is a 2011 film directed by Mikael Buch. It premiered at the 2011 Montreal World Film Festival and was released in December 2011 in France. It was released in the United States in 2013 by Zeitgeist Films and grossed $18,529 domestically.
Ruben is a French-Jewish gay mailman who lives in fairytale Finland (where he got his MA in "Comparative Sauna Cultures") with his gorgeous Nordic boyfriend, Teemu. Just before Passover, a series of mishaps and a lovers' quarrel exile the heartbroken Reuben back to Paris and his zany family—including Carmen Maura as his ditzy mom, and Truffaut regular Jean-François Stévenin as his lothario father. Scripted by director Mikael Buch and renowned arthouse auteur Christophe Honoré, Let My People Go! both celebrates and upends Jewish and gay stereotypes.[1]
"A fairy-tale romance whose title acknowledges both a saturation in and longing to be free of Jewish cultural baggage, Mikael Buch's Let My People Go!cross-breeds cultures that are rarely paired onscreen. International box-office prospects are fair in urban arthouses, where the presence of Almodóvar collaborator Carmen Maura may tip moviegoers off to the pop-inflected, comic semi-scandals in store."-John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter[4]